nichole jacobs is live on campus, nichole, boston police are the ones that aren't too thrilled about this. >> reporter: they are not, chris. it seems like they would have simply like today have been maybe even the decision. but instead they were left out of that situation. northeastern is right in the city of boston. putting itself in an arena now drawing mixed opinions. >> as long as it's a last resort i think i would feel safe. >> reporter: campus police adding semiautomatic rifles after recent scenarios of active shooters on college campuses. >> in what situation they will use it. >> reporter: accord to go campus police the high powered weapons would only come into play during a threat. >> i generally don't think having more guns solves anything although i would them. >> reporter: wbz security analyst and former boston police commissioner tells us when fighting threats of this caliber police should be on a level playing field with the gunman. >> university police officer or local police officer to go on a suicide mission if they are going after someone with a rifle. >> reporter: b

and that is where we are live this morning nichole jacobs. >>> it is 6:07 right now on monday morning, new this morning police investigating a serious motorcycle crash in door chester, the accident happened on galavan boulevard. >>> a hartford man will be in a connecticut he why caused of stealing skeletal remains, susie steimle with a possible motive. >> good morning, chris, this man told police that he stole these remains to practice the religion santoria, he had no secretes about it, he showed police where they could find the remains of the five people he took. >> so i visited there once a week or so. the hope cemetery in wooster, he finds the news unsettling. >> very disturbing. you know, i mean what would you do with body parts like that? , you know. or old skeletons. >> 32-year-old amador medina is scheduled to appear in a connecticut courtroom on monday, accused of stealing remains, police say he cooperated with them. taking them back to his hartford apartment to show them where he kept the stolen remains. he told police he planned to use them to practice a religion. >> we see

nichole jacobs is live for us in in boston with the latest on this, good morning, nichole. >> reporter: good morning to you, kathryn, it was around 6:00 yesterday morning when all of this happened, of course coming to an end around this time yesterday as well, it all began right here at this braintree station where an operator error, according to officials created quite a scare, let's take a look here, we did learn that it was a 28 year veteran of the mbta that was behind the controls initially, he stopped in brain but failed to engage the proper safety device, it hit the operator and continued to roll on through about four stops for 99 minutes. >> what happened to is unacceptable, it will be be made. >> we are lucky to get out of there the way it was, it could have been a lot worse. >> the operator has been identified as david vazquez, he is on administrative leave after having been treated and released from south shore hospital. the meeting scheduled for boston today it will be with federal officials as they continue to investigate this situation. we're live in brain tree, nichole ja

nichole jacobs is at campus this morning with a closer look at this debate, good morning, nichole. >> good morning to you, chris. an idea of an active shooter on college campus is enough to make manee wonder what they can do to protect themselves. that means arming themselves at the same level. >> northeastern university putting itself in an arena now drawing mixed opinions. >> as long as it's a last resort i think i would feel safe. >> campus police adding semiautomatic rifles to their ban of protection as active shooters on college campuses. >> in what situation they will use it. >> accord to go campus police the high powered weapons would come into play during a net. >> i generally don't think having more guns solves anything. the police have them. >> wbz security analyst and police commissioner tells us when fighting threats of this caliber. >> you are really asking an officer whether he is a university police officer or a local police officer to go on a suicide mission if they are going after someone with a rifle. boston police releasing a statement reading, what concerns the bpd

stores close for christmas, that means last minute shoppers are out in full force, let's get to nichole jacobs where the rush is on, nichole. >> it is on, chris, the crowd is certainly thickening here and there is a few hours left to try to convince santa that you are not on that thoughtee list this morning or this afternoon or tonight when he starts delivering all of those gifts. and certainly only a few hours for all of those procrastinators. >> it's what the holiday season tends to look like, bright festive store fronts, eager shoppers and of course the time crunch. >> crazy, you always try to plan ahead but it never works out that way. >> it's down to the wire and the race against the clock is on. >> i try not to but i'm caught this year. >> and this year is no different for some, holding back from that prolonged p word. >> a lot of people will say men are always procrastinators. does that hold true with you? >> it holds true for me for sure. >> the sales and good deals amount to many bags in hand as zack breaks free from his fiance snooping on his shopping. >> we are in separable, we are

nichole jacobs is live in nashua with more this noon, good afternoon, nichole. >> reporter: good afternoon to you chris and kathryn. i can tell you this afternoon we do expect to hear from the police chief, the school superintendent and the fbi with regards to an update in this investigation, but i did get a chance to ask the superintendent directly what made this threat different than others that have perhaps circulated, and he said it was the specificity of it. the direct schools named and how this violence would be carried out. it's unusual for the nashua school district, a school wide shut down. >> last time we got a a threat that led to the closure of a school was almost a decade ago. >> reporter: over the weekend it happened, wbz has learned a school administrator received a threat via e-mail. they will say this. high schools by name, it stated place today. and it gave the means by which harm would be done to students. >> reporter: out of an abundance of caution this say all 17 schools in the district were closed. >> we felt by being conservative we are hoping it will be reassuring o

in boston is due in court today, he left a suitcase next to a homeland security vehicle, our nichole jacobs is live in boston with a closer look at what happen, nichole. >> reporter: bree, authorities say it's shocking something like this could happen given the homeland security climate, if you will. but the sea port district was deemed safe and the man accused was taken into custody. james dupetney arrested in lawrence not long after the scare, it was in the sea port district outside the homeland security offices, he left a suitcase next to a department vehicle. >> they x-rayed it, they seen components inside, wires and a power source. step back, we got our robot in there. >> reporter: after detonating it, investigators found the suitcase and contents were not harmful, but a release of the suspect photo put all on alert on friday. >> took him into custody, he said i am not going to say anything without a lawyer and he continue, he was talking about the weather. >> reporter: authorities say he is homeless and has a criminal record but nothing along the lines of friday's boston bomb scare. h

in haverhill, nichole jacobs wbz knew. >>> hundreds of people spent christmas morning without power, a car crash on north montello street took down power lines. national grid crews are working on. >>> a christmas tragedy in nigeria, more than a hundred people killed when a gas tanker truck ignited, people lined up to fill their cooking gas cylinders much the fire rained for hours. >>> police in charlotte, north feud led to a deadly shooting inside a mall. confronted the shooter, that is when investigators say the 18- year-old pointed the gun at the officer, the officer shot and killed the teenager, no one else was hurt. >>> bolton police hope a sketch will help catch a man wanted in some armed home invasion, around 1:00 wednesday morning two men forced their way into a camper on century road and robbed the person inside. victims suffered non-life threatening injuries, investigators think the crime is isolated. >>> a 77-year-old tewkewbury woman is recovering this christmas as a car hit last night, police say the driver did stop at the scene and the woman is expected to be okay. >>> p

we begin with nichole jacobs, what can you tell us. >> reporter: kathryn we are live where that train finally came to a stop at the jfk u mass station, part of the investigation is trying to determine if any of those with causing this bizarre yet frightening ordeal. a run away train making a go just after 6:00 a.m. thursday, the redline headed north to north quincy station with no operator on board. sources tells wbz the nbta operator got off the train for a repair but was subsequently hit by it, it continued rolling on, we are told, at unknown speeds ignoring all station stops, it wasn't until operations crews depowered the rail that eventually it came to a halt. of course creating severe redline delays. nbta manager says passengers safety is the highest priority, and this highly troubling incident is under investigation by transit police detectives. in the meantime governor charlie baker's office is also responding to the investigation saying the governor is "grateful no passengers were injured in this troubling incident and we'll be closely, this as the original operator is treated

schools. many questions, school officials do anticipate that all schools being open tomorrow, nichole jacobs wbz this morning. >> nichole thank you very much for the update. >>> today a third person will be in federal court facing charges in connection to the weapons stolen from a worcester armory, tyrone james is in custody, accused of trying to broker the sale of the stolen weapons, james will be charged with lying to investigators and having one of the stolen weapons in his possession. james moreles broke into the arm rory last month. >>> a four year old boy killed in a house fire in west port. firemen found him curled up under his bed op the second floor of a home on mount pleasant street. his mother and sister barely escaped. a neighbor tried to save him but he jumped out a window when the smoke became too much. >> christmas is this week. and he was looking forward to >> just tell your children you love them. >> the house is the site of another deadly fire in 1952, nine people all one family were a fundraising page has been set up for the little boy's family. >>> firefighters in back to

nichole jacobs is live inside kohle's in burlington which has been open 24 hours a day the last week, nichole. >> reporter: it has, chris, one person who takes advantage of that every year is heidi webster, she came in with such ask you to be on tv. >> i look beautiful. you do look beautiful much so tell me, you are shopping last minute for your husband. i'm usually fairly organized for my children, but the older they get the harder it is so i'm shopping for my husband daughter. >> men can be difficult at times can't they? >> yes. >> tell me things you are finding as a benefit to coming in last minute, of in the morning on christmas eve. >> i really didn't like crowds so coming here in the morning or even in late evening is great, very quiet, nobody is here, great deals today, too. for me to be here today. >> yes, absolutely. >> honesty is the best policy. thank you so much heidi. enjoy your shopping. thank you. >> chris, i know you asked for better -- >> pa jam a pans. >> if we could get a suit jacket made out of that material. >> i'll look for some. >> thank you very much, appreciat

live in revere, susie steimle >>> and i'm nichole jacobs live in braintree where yesterday a redline station left the station without an operator, it happened around 6:00 yesterday morning and officials believe it was operator error, we've learned 28 year veteran checked the stop, failed to engage the proper safety devices, the train began to roll, it hit the operator and continued on through four stops with no one minutes. vazquez was that operate i don't remember, he is on administrative leave this morning, hear from passengers who were on that run away train, live in brain tree, nichole jacobs wbz this morning. >>> a big endorsement for donald trump from new england police, the benevolent association backed the controversial candidate. outside trump says they'll come says others have with his comments about mexican immigrants. >>> at 6:00 a.m. live in new england police benevolent association says they endorse trump. >>> new detail bus what sparked the volkswagen emissions scandal, the automaker says a small group of engineers created the emissions cheating software because they c

. >> >>> new overnight we learned two people will face charges for this, nichole jacobs with nichole. you, kathryn. that search went on here in the merrimack river for a couple hours, police determined the mother and daughter who reported it made it all up. the call came in around 7:30 yesterday, these women reporting that they saw a man walking here along the cuomo bridge with a baby carriage, they heard the baby crying and saw the man throw the baby over state and local police, fire and dive teams, crews searched for a couple of hours, interviewed the mother and daughter and determined it to be a hoax. both are charged with misleading police and filing a false police report, they are expected to be arraigned monday. that is the latest from haverhill. >>> more than a hundred people are dead this morning after a gas tanker truck ignited. a crowd was lining to refill their cooking gas cylinders just in time for christmas when that fire broke out. witness said the fire exploded like a bomb and it took hours to put out the flames. >>> a neighborhood on edge after a gunshot puts a prison

we are live in haverhill, nichole jacobs,. >>> thank you very much for the update. >>> a boston woman charged in connection with a theft of weapons from a worcester armory is free. >> growed to release 26-year- old ashley biggsby, she must wear a gts monitor, she helped broker the sale of the 16 stolen guns, she claims her boyfriend was in charge of the sale and she didn't know the weapons would be brought to her home. >>> a new problems forcing the chipotle in cleveland circle to be closed. health inspectors had given the restaurant the all clear after a norovirus outbreak that sickened is 40 people, mostly boston college students, no word on how long they plan to expand, according to the globe, the school wants to open a new dorm in roxbury that would house 800 students, including some student amenities and service. >>> new this morning, boston police detectives will be getting a raise, the globe reports an independent arbitrator is ordering the city to pay detectives 28.4% over the next four years, a mayor marty walsh calls the ruling disappointing. >>> it is time for our daily tal

nichole jacobs are live in nashua, new hampshire. >> good morning to you, chris. we are told that threat came in very specific to nashua high nashua high school south. officials thought it best that they respond out of an abundance of caution, we are told administrator, a school administrator received this threat via e-mail, we are told it was very specific indiana kateing exactly how students would be harmed at the two schools. and specifically it would happen today. because officials were unable to determine the source of that threat and the credibility of the at the time. the school superintendent decided to cancel all 17 schools in the district. >> these are going on throughout the country, they seem to be happening more frequently and they are disruptive on many different levels. >> so this investigating, they've done a sweep of the schools and they are still investigating to make shire and assure parents and -- make sure and assure parents, and classes will rei am tomorrow. >>> 6:34 right now, new this morning a car has veered off a road in quincy and almost

. >> nichole jacobs is live at kohle's in burlington,. >> they are giving procrastinators all the time in the world to get those last minute shopping items. and chris and kathryn, when we first got here surely there is no one going to be in the store before 5:00 a.m. shopping but i was a little wrong. courtney leonard son i found until 3 minutes ago, she's got company now, courtney, what time did you set your alarm or have you been asleep at this point. >> no, not really. i gist wanted to -- i was awake and home so i figured out i would sneak out. >> you waited until the last minute for this thing. >> yeah, it's my second trip out, so, yeah. >> so do you find that maybe waiting until the last minute has its benefits. >> yes, not as many people at all, it's nice and quiet. >> so when i walked through here i saw tons of sale signs, talk about the sales or kind of the last minute big ticket, good ticket item that you are getting. >> well, you've used a lot of coupons to help me out. but, kohle's is good for that, they take a lot of those and it's good for percent ands off and good deals h